diff --git a/.changeset/four-penguins-buy.md b/.changeset/four-penguins-buy.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..69884cafef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/four-penguins-buy.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/package-requester": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+The length of the temporary file names in the content-addressable store reduced in order to prevent `ENAMETOOLONG` errors from happening [#6842](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/6842).
diff --git a/pkg-manager/package-requester/package.json b/pkg-manager/package-requester/package.json
index e678cbd19e..3370bbef5c 100644
--- a/pkg-manager/package-requester/package.json
+++ b/pkg-manager/package-requester/package.json
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
     "p-limit": "^3.1.0",
     "p-map-values": "^1.0.0",
     "p-queue": "^6.6.2",
-    "path-temp": "^2.1.0",
     "promise-share": "^1.0.0",
     "ramda": "npm:@pnpm/ramda@0.28.1",
     "safe-promise-defer": "^1.0.1",
diff --git a/pkg-manager/package-requester/src/packageRequester.ts b/pkg-manager/package-requester/src/packageRequester.ts
index c237915708..a56cea0bde 100644
--- a/pkg-manager/package-requester/src/packageRequester.ts
+++ b/pkg-manager/package-requester/src/packageRequester.ts
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ import pMapValues from 'p-map-values'
 import PQueue from 'p-queue'
 import loadJsonFile from 'load-json-file'
 import pDefer from 'p-defer'
-import { fastPathTemp as pathTemp } from 'path-temp'
 import pShare from 'promise-share'
 import pick from 'ramda/src/pick'
 import semver from 'semver'
@@ -656,7 +655,9 @@ async function writeJsonFile (filePath: string, data: unknown) {
   // There is actually no need to create the directory in 99% of cases.
   // So by using cafs API, we'll improve performance.
   await fs.mkdir(targetDir, { recursive: true })
-  const temp = pathTemp(filePath)
+  // We remove the "-index.json" from the end of the temp file name
+  // in order to avoid ENAMETOOLONG errors
+  const temp = `${filePath.slice(0, -11)}${process.pid}`
   await gfs.writeFile(temp, JSON.stringify(data))
   await optimisticRenameOverwrite(temp, filePath)
 }
diff --git a/pnpm-lock.yaml b/pnpm-lock.yaml
index 9e5615241a..5dfdb2e6e2 100644
--- a/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -3633,9 +3633,6 @@ importers:
       p-queue:
         specifier: ^6.6.2
         version: 6.6.2
-      path-temp:
-        specifier: ^2.1.0
-        version: 2.1.0
       promise-share:
         specifier: ^1.0.0
         version: 1.0.0